SPRINGFIELD - Springfield police charged a 24-year-old Federal Street man with assault and battey with a dangerous weapon and assault to rape following a domestic altercation early Monday morning.

The suspect, Otoniel Melendez, of 98 Federal St., Apt. 7 cut off some of the woman's hair with a pair of scissors, threatened her with the scissors and attempted to rape her, Capt. Eugene C. Dexheimer said.